Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] believe that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 All this led me to believe that written approval was just a matter of time .
2 There are also some splendid quotes ; Planck 's gloomy view of the advance of science led him to believe that scientific truth triumphs not by convincing its opponents , but rather because they eventually die .
3 To exonerate him the court invented the second stage : did he believe that reasonable people would regard his behaviour as not dishonest ?
4 Although he was involved with the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre , he never settled with any organisation for long , nor did he believe that permanent companies were likely to produce better work than ad hoc assemblies .
5 This week the Department of Energy said it believed that sufficient data would be available from other sources to make Super-SARA unnecessary .
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